The group-size paradox: Effects of learning and patch departure rules

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 352-357

  Beauchamp, Guy ^a   Fernández Juricic, Esteban ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Learning; Linear operator rule; Optimal group size; Simulation model; Social foraging

Indexed keywords

FITNESS; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GROUP BEHAVIOR; GROUP SIZE; LEARNING;

EID: 14644400526     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arh169     Document Type: Article

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